1910
17236
TELEGRAM TO THE COMMISSAR OF THE LUGANSK 
AMMUNITION PLANT
February 15, 1919
Urgent
Lugansk, ammunition plant, Commissar Menyailo
Urgently telegraph which precisely materials, in what 
quantities are necessary for the maximum development of 
ammunition production. Can you conduct production with the 
existing personnel, which and how many specialists does the 
plant still need. Can you recruit the workers necessary for 
increasing production to one and a half million daily. Send a 
detailed written report on the materials and products on hand.
Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars
Lenin

Printed from the original 
signed by V. I. Lenin.

3837
SANITARY RULES FOR KREMLIN RESIDENTS
February 18, 1919

For the purpose of preventing the development of contagious 
diseases, in the interests of general welfare, it is proposed to 
Kremlin residents:

1. Of every case of suspected contagious illness (fever) or skin 
rash—immediately notify the Kremlin Sanitary Inspection 
Administration (Voznesensky Monastery, apt. no. 7) with detailed 
address indicated.

2. All persons arriving (by railway) before occupying quarters—
must bathe in the bathhouse and turn over their clothing to the 
disinfector (at the bathhouse). (Those having a bath at their 
apartment must immediately summon the disinfector to the house 
to receive the articles.)

3. Maintain personal cleanliness and cleanliness of quarters.

4. Notify the Kremlin Sanitary Inspection Administration of all 
observed sanitary violations and comply with the instructions of 
the Kremlin Sanitary Inspection for their elimination.

5. Those evading compliance with sanitary rules will be 
immediately evicted from the Kremlin and brought to trial for 
causing public harm.

6. Sanitary inspection authority extends to all civilian and 
military population of the Kremlin.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

Printed from the original 
signed by V. I. Lenin.

24789
TELEGRAM TO THE COUNCIL OF PEOPLE'S COMMISSARS 
OF UKRAINE
KHARKOV
February 18, 1919

Kharkov statisticians have addressed themselves to the Director 
of the Central Statistical Administration, comrade Popov, with a 
proposal to enter into communication with the Ukrainian Soviet 
government on the question of organizing statistics for Ukraine 
according to the model of state statistics of the Soviet Republic—
Russia. In the event of your agreement, comrade Popov may be 
delegated to Ukraine for this purpose. I request a telegraphic 
reply*.

Lenin

40306
DIRECTIVE
February 19, 1919

It is prescribed for People's Commissar A. D. Tsyurupa, in view 
of his resuming work and the necessity of protecting state 
property, to strictly observe precautions:
not to work more than two hours without interruption.
not to work after 10 p.m.
not to receive members of the public.
To execute without question the restrictive prescriptions of 
Lidia Aleksandrovna Fotiyeva.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

* Printed from the original signed by V. I. Lenin. The last phrase is 
written in his own hand.

** The directive was given by V. I. Lenin in connection with A. D. 
Tsyurupa's resumption of work after serious illness.